Work with us

Are you a school that would like to discuss joining our trust?

Advantage Schools expects its schools to be the best. We therefore do not rest or think our job is ever done. Even in our strongest schools, which are ‘outliers’ in terms of performance and a beacon to the system, we challenge ourselves to be even better.

We have a knowledge-rich curriculum that we make better with every iteration, and we strongly believe that this provides the foundations for excellent school performance.

We have a network of professionals that we work with inside our trust and we commission support and challenge from other organisations where this can accelerate our development.

Our Chief Executive, Stuart Lock, has a national profile, having been a very successful secondary headteacher and appointed to the Department for Education groups that wrote the Early Career Framework, the standards for National Leaders of Education and the standards for Headteachers. He is also the editor of a book on research into school leadership.

Our Central Team includes one of the country’s best thinkers in education and a curriculum specialist. We also have exceptional subject-specialists in each of the core subjects. We have a number of Specialist Leaders in Education, and we share recruitment and staffing, which are huge bonuses for our schools. The Central Operations is led by highly experienced professionals that deal with many aspects of HR, marketing, IT, estates management, admissions and finance, leaving schools free to focus on what really matters: leadership, curriculum and teaching.

Our Board of Directors includes world-class educationalists, business people, and school leaders. They set the strategic direction of the Trust and challenge us to meet our aim of ensuring all of our pupils are highly educated.

We are a family of schools, and we want schools to join us to help shape us as we start this next phase of our journey. We expect that those schools will want to contribute to the life chances of thousands more young people and serve thousands more families as part of a stronger network.

We know that there will be things that we can do better, more of, or more efficiently, as a result of schools joining us. In return, we expect to help each of the schools to be better as well. A key question for us when a school wants to explore joining us is whether we can help make the school significantly better for pupils and families.

Most importantly, we think we can transform education to be so much better, and we are stronger doing this together.

For an informal conversation with Stuart Lock, Chief Executive, contact his Executive Assistant, Victoria Lockey, on the email link below.